US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on July 28 for "Biometric reader with micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,707, issued on July 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Biometric reader with micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) components" was invented by Toshiro Ozawa (Irvine, Calif.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Cato Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and other techniques for providing a biometric reader (e.g., a fingerprint reader) with MEMS components are described herein. An example device includes MEMS components configured to actuate based on detecting contact of a finger with the surface of the device. Control circuitry of the devic...